Sacred Rhythms Shamanic Immersion
HEAL & EMPOWER YOURSELF IN COMMUNITY, THROUGH CEREMONY & EARTH BASED PRACTICES
This offering is a series of 3 retreats, 3 sets of integration practices, and 3 video calls that flow with Nature—ever-changing and evolving with the seasons. Each season is uniquely shaped by the rhythms of Nature herself—no two Falls, Winters, Springs, or Summers are ever the same.
I don’t plan ahead; I listen deeply and take notes. I ask the elements, the spirit of the season, and my guides what they wish to bring forth. Sacred Rhythms is not created by me but by the living intelligence of Nature—and I simply shape what I receive into an experience we share together.
Fall Session: A Shamanic Immersion of Celebration, Co-Creation & Connection
7/31/25: I walked with Grandmother Water today, and she showed me that the energy for this Fall’s Sacred Rhythms feels like dancing into the season as a twirling, glittering creator of joy—sprinkling golden butterflies of love and hope while gracefully crossing the threshold into the holidays… while also trying to not cry over sweet potatoes, or punch a relative🤪 Sacred AND human. Joyful AND real.
Fall Sacred Rhythms Energies:
Celebrating the autumnal harvest with joy and reverence
Playfulness and childlike wonder
Creativity, creation, and co-creation
Shamanic empowerment
Envisioning and embodying what REALLY lights us up!
Deep heart connection with Nature, the spirit of Fall, our circle, our guides, and the holidays
Rediscovering long-lost, rich holiday traditions that live in your bones
Grandmother Water reminded me that Fall serves as the gateway to the holiday season, and she’s asking those of us stepping into Sacred Rhythms this Fall to amplify the joy, playfulness, celebration, and soul-filled connection that have long been integral to the harvest and holiday seasons. She told me this will help us develop stronger, healthier roots of community and resilience—especially important in these times.
How We’ll Embody This Together:
This Fall, as we embody all of those beautiful energies above, we will also reignite an ancient flame of community by:
Reclaiming the holidays as sacred, heart-centered times of joy and play—channeling as much light as possible and radiating outward with intention.
Co-weaving new ways to celebrate with ancient and modern threads of ritual, ceremony, and togetherness—drawing from many pools of inspiration to weave traditions that make our hearts dance.
Creating new traditions that nurture us and our loved ones while honoring the environment and all life with care and respect.
Honoring and celebrating our loved ones and ancestors.
Think firelight and laughter, music and sacred altars, soulful storytelling, creative rituals, seasonal beauty, deep connection—and pure JOY!
RECEIVE
One 90 minute one-on-one intake session for you to share what’s going on in life. What do you hope to heal, or change through your sacred work? What thoughts, habits, emotions, beliefs, patterns or cycles are calling to be transformed? What seeds do you wish to plant and grow in yourself, or your life?
Three full day (not consecutive) ceremonial retreats to connect, immerse, learn, receive, and nourish our bodies with a beautiful meal.
Three meals prepared by the chefs of Holy Wisdom Monastery during our retreats.
Integration work or “homework” for you to create your own ceremonies between our ceremonial day retreats.
Three 2 hour group video chats to connect, process, share, and ask questions. When time allows, we will close with a short guided journey. While attending these chats aren’t required, it will deepen your work and your experience of this immersion. All video chats will be opened and closed in a sacred way, so this will also be a good opportunity for you to learn how to weave your sacred intentions into virtual spaces.
Optional add-ons include:
One-on-one shamanic healing sessions (details here)
Personalized ceremonies, either in a one-on-one or a group setting with your friends and family. These ceremonies are intended for you to celebrate honor, or mark a change in yourself or your life. These ceremonies are ideal for birthdays, important anniversaries, home purchase or sale, marriage, divorce, becoming a parent or an empty nester, etc.
Additional integration support.
fall retreat Days
Oct 4, 10:30am-6pm
Nov 1, 10:30am-6pm
Dec 13, 10:30am-6pm
fall group video calls
Oct 22, 6-8pm
Nov 19, 6-8pm
Jan 7, 6-8pm
SLIDING SCALE TUITION
I know sliding scales can be mystifying, so I hope this guide is helpful!
Please be mindful that by opting into a lower tier when you can truthfully afford a higher tier, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility. Your honesty about your financial situation helps me to grow a sustainable, accessible community.
Tuition listed is the pay in full amount. Payment plans will include a 4% administrative cost, and will be broken up equally into 3 payments.
Supporter Level $999 (or three payments @ $350)
If you navigate the world with financial ease, and have the ability to fulfill many of your wants and needs (i.e you can afford to dine out when you like, you can easily meet your needs through your work or can comfortably not work, you own property, have access to family wealth, etc.) please consider paying at this level. This helps create the long term sustainability of group offerings while keeping them accessible to those with fewer financial resources.
Sustainer Level, $777 (or three payments @ $272)
If you’re generally able to meet your needs with ease while budgeting for entertainment and educational experiences (i.e you’re able to afford non-essential experiences/classes, eat out occasionally, etc) please consider paying at this level, which helps sustain group offerings at a modest level.
Supported Level, $588 (or three payments at $205)
If you struggle to cover your basic needs and have limited access to resources, or if you would not be able to access this offering without a discounted option, please consider paying at this level. Your presence and contributions are deeply valued and I do not want any economic circumstances to be a barrier to your joining us!
What This is, and what it’s not
This is not a class, or a workshop—it’s a living field of sacred energy, filled with love, possibility, and deep soulful connection. It’s a piece of the Sacred Web that has always existed. It came to me, and asked to be shaped into a tangible offering that is nourishing, transformational, and accessible… A powerful, yet bite sized, shamanic immersion, if you will.
While you will receive teachings, insights, and inspiration, this is not a course. It does not qualify you to offer shamanic work to others, nor is it meant to be replicated, adapted, or taught. What you receive here is for you. If you are seeking a course in shamanism, email me here to be the first to know when my upcoming courses are launched!
An Invitation to Receive
I ask you to honor this container by allowing it to nourish your being, rather than treating it as material to share or teach. In a world where multitasking and “two birds, one stone” is king, this is a rare invitation to simply bask in the beauty of receiving.
Growing Community, Together
For those who feel called, we continue deepening our connections and growing our community long after the season ends—supporting and uplifting one another, and weaving a reality we feel excited to live in.
Testimonials
“I signed up for Jessica’s Shamanic Ceremonial Immersion in the Fall of 2023 to deepen my spirituality, learn about some of my experiences and Shamanism. I didn’t quite know what to expect other than maybe I’d learn a few things. Never did I expect it would be so life-changing! Not only have I learned, and continue to learn, so much about Shamanism, but I’ve grown, healed and reconnected with my beautiful soul. Jessica has guided me through a deep inner journey that has led to profound personal growth. As Jessica likes to say…I’m becoming more “sparkly”. I’ve let go of things that I didn’t even know were holding me back and have a new ‘awareness’. With her guidance and ceremonies I’ve expanded my understanding and perspective of this world. My family and friends also can feel this positive energy shift. It feels wonderful and I’m so grateful to her for the work she does. She is a true Shaman.”
“I have attended several ceremonies with Jessica and each time I am reminded of what a caring and loving soul she is. She will always listen and help find a solution to what is challenging you and help you become more then what you were before. Each ceremony has its own meaning and location that helps facilitate the journey. She is so knowledgeable and will always give each situation 100%. I highly recommend any class that she has to offer, whatever calls to you. Just do it!”
“I registered for the Winter Sacred Rhythms Immersion (2025) because traditional therapy wasn’t cutting it for me. My intuition and cognitive brain weren’t in alignment and it was causing my nervous system to overreact in a lot of small relational situations.
Jessica is an incredible facilitator and practitioner of sacred work. After the first two day retreats, I noticed I was calmer and less reactive. I experienced a massive about of healing for the trauma I was intentionally trying to overcome. Additionally, she gave me tools to use for the rest of my life.
The entire experience was fun, playful, deeply insightful and meaningful as it was done in community. I loved every part and highly recommend the experience to anyone looking to strengthen their spirituality, overcome trauma and grief, or even just to play with their intuition.”
““I am writing to offer my hearty endorsement of Jessica Riphenberg’s Shamanic Immersion Session. I attended her session in Jan-March of this year, in Madison, WI, at Holy Wisdom Monastery’s Retreat Center with acres of restored prairie and woodland.
Being new to Shamanic journeying I wasn’t sure what to expect, but there was no reason to worry being in Jessica’s capable hands. The Immersion is wisely designed to offer participants (11 in my group) several full days – Saturdays – to be together to create ceremony, journey together, and participate in sacred sharing.
The themes of the journey were always relevant to the season, an element of nature, and the individual concerns of group members (each participant was interviewed prior to the Immersion and Jessica gently tuned into our “issues.”)
With ample time for solo contemplation and/or interaction with nature on the beautiful grounds of Holy Wisdom, all participants reported feeling the support of Mother Earth in so many varied ways. It was amazing to hear the common threads running through our sharing when we would reconvene together. This synergy made for a very powerful experience for me: to be heard, to be understood, to be validated around the new insights and experiences I was having! This was a fantastic learning/growing experience.
As the group leader and facilitator, Jessica shined her light on us all! Her gentle, experienced and knowing way of inquiring about our journeys and connections made it easy to bravely open up and share. I learned so much about my inner longings for connecting to the natural world and how to support this unfolding. I learned about the properties of earthly elements, animals (creatures of ALL kinds) and “Life Force.” I am sure there will be many ripple effects which will positively impact my life for months to come.
I highly recommend Jessica Riphenberg’s Shamanic Immersion program to the curious and committed: there is “suggested homework”, support via group ZOOM calls and additional opportunities for meet-ups. This program is well worth your time and money!! I plan to attend again in the fall of 2025.”
“What an immensely transforming and healing retreat! I highly recommend attending immersive programming and retreats with Jessica if you are interested in healing, personal transformation and spiritual growth! This past August, I attended a day-long immersive retreat with Jessica and it was quite the transformative experience. Every detail was thought out and cultivated to give us ample opportunity to further our unique healing and transformative journey. The entire day was a perfect balance of introspection, activities and sacred rituals to create an environment to accelerate my unique intention and to connect with other like-minded participants. Jessica’s authenticity and generosity was palpable throughout the entire day that created a sacred and meaningful environment to dive deeply into my unique personal intention. I highly recommend Jessica’s retreats and immersive experiences if you are looking for authentic connection and a conducive environment to participate in your healing and empowerment journey. ”
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We will be gathering at the beautiful Holy Wisdom Monastery. Holy Wisdom Monastery is a serene, loving space with gorgeous walking trails, a 10,000 year old glacial pond, and several special places to reflect in Nature, as well as indoors. We will have a private indoor space to connect when we are not on the land.
ARE YOU READY TO EMBRACE THE ELEMENTS?
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” - Ranulph Fiennes
You must be ready to embrace Mother Nature and the elements in less than ideal weather for our circles, as we will be heading outdoors for ceremony unless the weather is truly extreme. Winter requires gear that can handle deep snow and frigid temps. Spring - Fall may require boots that can get muddy and wet just above the ankles, and you may need a rain jacket and rain pants- it will just depend on the weather.
Our ceremony time will be outdoors, and will last for at least 2 hours. You’ll also have integration time, which you can spend indoors or outdoors, and all meals will be enjoyed indoors, and provided by the chefs of Holy Wisdom Monastery.
YOUR COMMITMENT
It’s really important that you do your own work between sacred circles and calls. A regular practice for connecting with yourself and Spirit through journaling, journeying and/or meditating are going to lay a solid foundation for you to claim all of the gifts this intensive has to offer. This may be a matter of getting more consistent with your current spiritual practices, or bumping it up a notch. I can help you find soul nourishing practices, as well as a rhythm during your intake session, but you must be willing to do the work.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
This offering is near and dear to my heart. It’s something I’ve been working on for years. The ceremonies that I’ll be sharing with you are the ones that have transformed my own life. They’ve ushered me through tough times and challenging seasons, both internal and external.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Hi, I’m Jessica, a Shamanic Practitioner with 14 years of transformational work experience & hundreds of hours of shamanic training through the lenses of Core Shamanism and Andean Shamanism.
Navigating the spirit world is something I was literally born into, as my maternal bloodline is filled with naturally gifted seers, mediums & intuitives. Needless to say, we are a delightfully eccentric bunch!
My mission throughout this offering is to steward deep transformative healing for you while teaching you how to activate your personal power, vitality & Divine guidance through ceremony.
This experience is designed to deeply connect you with Nature, the elements, and your spirit guides.
It will empower & inspire you to develop reciprocal, meaningful, lifelong relationships with these potent spirit allies. By the end of this immersion, you will know & experience, IN YOUR BONES, that no matter what life throws at you, you never have to walk through the fire alone.
WHAT IS SHAMANISM, AND IS IT FOR ME?
All are welcome. Shamanism is a general practice that houses countless ancestral lineages, and has been practiced in cultures around the world (likely, every culture!)
Shamanism helped our ancestors survive harsh conditions in primitive times. Our ancestors did not survive due to luck- they were accessing wisdom beyond what the 5 senses could perceive. Indigenous shamans were (and in many communities still are) the doctors, pharmacists, therapists, psychiatrists, healers, storytellers and wisdom keepers of their communities.
Shamanism has survived in cultures across the world for 50,000+ years because it is a dynamic lifeforce energy. Shamanism meets us where WE are at RIGHT NOW- in our cultures, our lives, and our personal processes of evolution.
By its very nature, it can never be a static spirituality that one day no longer fits us due to shifts in consciousness or culture. It is a spiritual way of being, perceiving, and moving in the world.
Shamanism is not a religion, but the two are not mutually exclusive. Many practice shamanism on its own, but it’s not uncommon for religious people to weave shamanism into their lives.